Dunedin, New Zealand

GENERAL INFORMATION

About EPC
About the Society
About New Zealand
Exchange Rates
Visas

ABOUT EPC

Prior to 1970, academic psychologists and practitioners of psychology in Australia met each year at a conference organized by the Australian Psychological Society. In the early 1970s, academic psychologists started organising their own annual conferences. Those studying perception held a series of meetings at the Australian National University (ANU). 

In 1974, Professor Ross Day organized the first Experimental Psychology Conference, held at Monash University. There were three parallel streams at the conference that ran over three days, one devoted to perception, one devoted to cognition, and one devoted to studies of animals. At the business meeting, conference goers agreed to hold another conference the following year, at University of Sydney. At its business meeting, conference goers agreed to hold another one the following year, at ANU. The conference has continued in this manner, passing from one organizing committee to the next, over 31 incarnations.

Click here to see details of previous Experimental Psychology Conferences.

ABOUT THE SOCIETY

Around 1996 conference goers agreed that the conference organizers needed to be protected from financial risks by an incorporated society. This was called the Australasian Experimental Psychology Society (Australasian to bring New Zealand into the society). The society was incorporated in Western Australia in 1997. It has one permanent executive member: Professor David Badcock as its Registered Public Officer. The remainder of the executive each year are the members of that year's conference organizing committee. Professor Badcock coordinates the activities of the society, including finding the next year's organizing committee chairperson. People who register for the conference become members of the society for that year. As well, anyone can join the society for one year by sending us AU$5 and his or her contact details.

ABOUT NEW ZEALAND

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EXCHANGE RATES

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VISAS
If you are a citizen of Australia, all you need to travel to New Zealand is a valid passport. You do NOT need a visa. If you are a citizen of any country with a Visa Waiver agreement with New Zealand, you also do NOT need to apply for a visa providing you are coming for less than three months and have a return ticket. These countries are Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Korea (South), Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Nauru, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuvalu, UK, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, USA, and Vatican City. For more, and definitive, information about visas go to the New Zealand Immigration Service page on Visitor's Visas and Permits.

Contact: epc@psy.otago.ac.nz

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This page was last updated on 22 December 2004.